[Peace-discuss] Sat Day Forum on Low Wage Workers 2pm

[Fields, A Belden]

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Social Justice Forum, Channing Murray, 2-4 p.m. Saturday, April 12
How Can We Help Low Wage Workers
Free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served
For generations, Americans shared a tacit understanding that if you worked hard, a livable income and basic securities would be yours. That promise has been broken. Today, more than 30 million men and women in this country work in jobs that pay poverty wages and provide few if any benefits.
A large body of research amassed over the past decade clearly demonstrates that the structural changes to the U.S. economy over the past 20 years resulting from globalization, sharp declines in union density, industry deregulation and the computerization of the workforce have led to harsh working conditions, reduced benefits, and fewer opportunities for advancement for workers in low-wage jobs. In addition welfare reforms begun under the Clinton Administration have forced larger numbers of unskilled workers into the low-wage labor market.
In this panel, several aspects of the low-wage issue will be addressed: 1) myths about low-wage workers; 2) problems with measuring income adequacy and the history of a local living wage campaign; 3) current social justice efforts on behalf of low-wage workers, including “Fight for $15”. The panelists are Ricky Baldwin, SEIU Local 73; Belden Fields,  Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Pat Simpson, Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, Loyola University Chicago.
Co-sponsored by Social Action Committee of UUCUC, CU Friends Meeting, Central Illinois Chapter of Jobs with Justice.

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